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Bible New Testament Criticism, interpretation, etc Christian education Christian literature, Early Christianity Church controversies Church history Primitive and early church Church history Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 Gnosticism of Assisi, Saint Francis 1182-1226 Theology History Early church, ca. 30-600Filter By Series
Great courses (Compact disc)Cook, William R. (William Robert)
Summary: This 24-lecture course is intended to help you analyze and appreciate the long poem by Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) known as the Divine Comedy.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2001
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 851.1 COO V.1Call number: CD 851.1 COO V.2
Ehrman, Bart D.
Summary: Twenty-four lectures on the history and varieties of Christian doctrines in the early church.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2010
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 229.9206 EHRCook, William R. (William Robert)
Summary: An analysis of the classic work Confessions by St. Augustine of Hippo (354-430). Includes Roman history and Christian controversries at the time and background for understanding the book. Also discusses its ongoing usefulness and how it may serve as a guide despite the obvious diffrence between Augustine's world and ours.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2004
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 270.2 COO PART 1Call number: CD 270.2 COO PART 2
Cook, William R. (William Robert)
Summary: A series of twelve 30 min. lectures. Historian William Cook and literary scholar Ronald Herzman discuss the life, world, and legacy of Francis of Assisi.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2000
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 271.3 COOCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great 271.3 FrancisEhrman, Bart D.
Summary: Discussion of how Christianity was shaped. Who exactly were the Apostolic Fathers? Why were they given that name? Most important, what windows into the shaping of Christianity's canon, church hierarchy, and creed are opened for us with an understanding of works that include the letters of 1 Clement or Ignatius, the Didache of the Apostles, or the Letter to Diognetus? Provides anwers to these...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2005
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 230 EHREhrman, Bart D.
Summary: Presents a history of Christianity from the time of Jesus to the end of the fourth century. Includes examination of Jewish-Christian relationships, Christian relationships with the Roman Empire, persecution of Christians, and the development of church offices and theology.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2004
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 230 EHR Part 1Call number: CD 230 EHR Part 2
Ehrman, Bart D.
Summary: Provides a historical context to foster a fuller understanding of contemporary events and people in the New Testament. Discuses distinguishing characteristics between the Greco-Roman cults and Judaism and Christianity, Jesus as a historical figure, and each of the twenty-seven books of the New Testament.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2001
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 225 EHREhrman, Bart D.
Summary: "Even though early Christianity is one of the most studied fields in the entire discipline of religious studies, numerous controversies continue to puzzle both scholars and laypeople. This course examines 24 of these controversies to show why they have fascinated students of the Christian religion and to attempt to resolve them with academic rigor."--page 1 of course guidebook.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013